Nigeria: Maiduguri - Gunmen Kill Islamic Scholar

4 September 2011

A local Islamic scholar was this morning shot dead by some unidentified gunmen in Zannari, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

Daily Trust gathered that the scholar who was simply identified as Mallam Dala, was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen at his residence around 11am in the morning.

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